Corporality and the Body in Soviet Poster Art: Three Cases

Abstract

In the article, the authors analyze the constitutions of the body and the textures of corporeality in Soviet poster art. The choice of the subject of the study is due to a number of reasons: poster art is directly designed for the mass consumer, it is extremely suggestive, its images concentrate ideological prerogatives, values, ideals. Often, the focus of research attention is the verbal message, but the visual elements of the poster are no less “talking”. In particular, the representations of corporeality and the body, literally the “physics” of the poster message, can say no less about the axiology of time than the verbal elements. The authors of the article proposed an experimental format for obtaining and publishing the results. Firstly, the material of the article is a transcript of a dialogue about three cases of Soviet poster art, and secondly, one of the participants in the conversation is the open-source artificial intelligence DeepSeek. With the help of an unconventional format, the authors plan to invite the reader (including other researchers) to a discussion and fruitful conversation about poster art and, more specifically, about the representation of corporeality in the ideology and culture of the USSR. The integration of AI as a participant in the dialogue is determined by the peripheral task of studying the features of constructing AI discourse.